Ivan Bytchkov

Ivan Bytchkov (1966-) was a Faustin crime family associate. Bytchkov was a Russian immigrant to the United States, and he was suspected of white collar crimes in New York City during the 2000s.

Biography
Ivan Bytchkov was born in the Russian SFSR of the Soviet Union in 1966, and he moved to the United States during the early 1990s. Bytchkov settled in the Eastern European neighborhood of Brighton Beach, Brooklyn in New York City, and he became involved with the Faustin crime family. He was arrested in 2000 for embezzlement and in 2004 for burglary, doing these jobs for his friend Vlad Glebov. In 2008, the paranoid Mikhail Faustin was offended by Bytchkov, and he decided to order Glebov to put a hit out on Bytchkov. Glebov told his associate Niko Bellic that Bytchkov had stolen money from his cousin Roman Bellic, and he told him to chase him down and kill him. Bellic chased Bytchkov from his cousin's cab depot to a construction site, and Bytchkov nearly fell off of a ledge. Bellic decided to help him up and spare him after Bytchkov said that Glebov had lied about him, as Bellic knew that Glebov was a cruel person. He let Bytchkov go with a warning: he told him to leave Brighton Beach for good, and Bytchkov moved to New Jersey, disappearing. He married a local American woman and became a loan shark, and Niko Bellic would randomly encounter him in New Jersey, helping him with killing a group of M.O.B. gangsters and taking some money that the M.O.B. had owed him.